Thessalonians

You know the drill. This is scratch work. The gist of this is to show that the use of spectacle, cultic sacrifice, etc… imagery would not be foreign either to Paul or the audience(s) which is why such an analogy that I will propose in Galatians can be allowed. Paul’s Use of Spectacle and Sports […]

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I’m reading Fred Craddock‘s book, Preaching, for a class on, well, preaching. In it, it notes – while avoiding the Augustine dispute with Donatus – that the preacher’s moral character is a part of the sermon. I see the same thing in 1 Thessalonians 2. Paul is intent to give a good account of himself. […]

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This past Sunday, the Sunday School class made it through chapter three of 1 Thessalonians. Remember, we are, much to the chagrin of canonical theologians, going through the New Testament chronologically. James was first, and now 1 Thessalonians. The thought occurred to me as to what the good news was for Paul. He did not […]

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Next week, our Sunday School class will begin to read 1 Thessalonians as we explore the New Testament canon chronologically. Granted, Childs and others of the canonical stripe may disagree with this method, but I find that for those who are developing their own theology, especially historical theology, beginning with the earliest writings and progressing […]

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This is classwork. It was supposed to be only between 750 to 1000 words. Ugh. ___ The second chapter of 1 Thessalonians serves as Paul’s self-defense of a previous mission, perhaps against the persecution which the community was presently suffering (5.3, but more especially, 2.14-16) and is delivered in an epideictic style. This defense is […]

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Since I have nothing to post this morning, I’m going to post a response I gave about the above mentioned topic: ___ I agree with you that often times, pulling “end times” theology (I use this vs. eschatology), from Paul, as with the entire New Testament, is subjective. Of course, often times, many of our […]

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I had posted on this, and as all my posts, it feed to my Twitter account to which Brian retweeted and a conversation with another tweeter began. Since then, a good friend whom I’ve ever met via Facebook has done some marvelous work on lining out the very biblical reasons why the rapture mentality (I […]

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To those who have been once gathered to Christ he promises eternal life with him, by which statements the reveries of Origen and of the Chiliasts are abundantly refuted. For the life of believers, when they have once been gathered into one kingdom, will have no end any more than Christ’s. Now, to assign to […]

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I guess some football player used 1st Thessalonians 5:18 today: In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. How do I know? Because every time he uses a bible verse, it stays on Google Trends for about 12 hours, every Saturday. I reckon I should be […]